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Uno sguardo al futuro: la lotta storica di AMD contro Intel non è il solo argomento che verrà discusso durante questo nuovo anno. Quella nei 64Bit è già cominciata sulla carta, Sun affila le proprie armi mentre IBM presenta il Power4.
Tutto questo viene analizzato in un unico articolo pubblicato oggi da Real World Technology.

Although the Intel McKinley and AMD Hammer are both 64 bit MPUs, these devices are directed at different markets. While the large and expensive McKinley will target medium and high-end server applications, the first member of the Hammer family, code named "Clawhammer", will target the high end desktop PC market. That is not to say that McKinley will outperform the Clawhammer device. Indeed, I expect the AMD device will easily beat the much slower clocked IA64 server chip in SPECint2K and many other integer benchmarks, as well as challenge much faster clocked Pentium 4 devices in both integer and floating point performance.

Exactly how much performance the Hammer core may provide is the subject of some controversy. AMDÂ’s Fred Weber was quoted as stating the Hammer core could offer SPECint2k performance as much as twice that of current processors. Although this comment is vague enough to drive a truck through (twice as fast as the best AMD processor? Best x86 processor? Best processor announced but not yet shipping?, IA-32 or x86-64 code?, Clawhammer or the big cache Sledgehammer?) a few web based news sites interpreted this comment as meaning the Hammer would achieve 1400 SPECint2k and now some people are incorrectly attributing this figure to Weber himself.